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A comparison of ground truth estimation methods.

Alberto M Biancardi1, Artit C Jirapatnakul, Anthony P Reeves

  • 1Cornell University, 397 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY, USA. amb284@cornell.edu

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|December 25, 2009
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Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE) and Truth Estimate from Self Distances (TESD) are viable for estimating ground truth (GT) for medical imaging. Thresholded Probability Maps (TPMs) are less appealing due to computational advancements.

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  • Medical imaging analysis
  • Computational pathology
  • Radiology

Background:

  • Accurate lesion segmentation is crucial for developing diagnostic tools and validating algorithms.
  • Establishing ground truth (GT) from multiple expert annotations is essential for quantitative analysis.
  • Comparing different GT estimation methods is vital for selecting the most reliable approach.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare four methods for estimating ground truth (GT) of pulmonary nodules from multiple radiologists' annotations.
  • To evaluate thresholded Probability-Map (TPM) at 0.50 and 0.75, Simultaneous Truth and Performance Level Estimation (STAPLE), and Truth Estimate from Self Distances (TESD).

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a subset of the Lung Image Database Consortium archive with pulmonary nodules annotated by four radiologists.
  • Calculated Jaccard coefficients to assess pairwise similarities between estimated GTs.
  • Ranked estimated volumes against radiologists' markings and performed sign tests to analyze differences.

Main Results:

  • STAPLE and TESD showed no statistically significant rank variations or volume differences.
  • TPM(0.50) estimates were statistically larger, while TPM(0.75) estimates were statistically smaller than other methods.
  • Significant spatial disagreement was observed between TPMs, STAPLE, and TESD, indicated by confidence intervals.

Conclusions:

  • STAPLE and TESD are equally viable GT estimators, despite minor weaknesses.
  • TPM methods are becoming less appealing due to increasing computational power.
  • The choice between STAPLE and TESD depends on reader reliability and region boundary reliability.